Looking at several major Japanese automobile brands Toyota, Nissan, Mazda, Mitsubishi and Suzuki, I think only Honda can best represent the Japanese automobile industry!
Honda was first established in 1946 and 1948. Honda was named "Honda Technology Research Industry Co., Ltd." and its headquarters was in Tokyo, Japan. As can be seen from the name of Honda, Honda is a company that pays attention to technology research and development. The American Society of Mechanical Engineers has a Holly Award, which is specially used to reward people who have made outstanding contributions in the field of mechanical engineering. So far, the award has been awarded twice, once in 1936, to Henry Ford, the "king of cars" in the United States; The other time, 1980 was awarded to Japanese Shoichiro Honda, the founder of Honda. So Honda is also called Henry Ford of Japan by the Japanese! It can be seen that these two people have made extraordinary contributions in the field of automobile machinery manufacturing!
Shoichiro Honda was born in Shizuoka Prefecture on 1906. There was no wind and rain on the day he was born, and there was no dragon and phoenix dance. Zong Ichiro has reached the age of 16, and he can't study. He dropped out of junior high school in China, packed his bags and left his parents, and came to Tokyo to work step by step. Like many children who don't study in China, that year was 1922, the eleventh year of the Republic of China.
Unlike Akio Toyoda, young Tsuichiro has no college diploma, background, platform and professional technical training. At that time, Jin Ichiro was a diaosi, with no knowledge of Chinese characters, no diploma, no skills, no background and no platform, and he was still a minor. However, Tsuichiro Honda is tough and self-motivated. He had a strong interest in mechanical design since he was a child, and found his hobbies very early.
The greatest happiness in the world is to turn hobbies into a survival skill. Because of his great interest in mechanical design, Shoichiro Honda became an apprentice in a repair shop in Tokyo. This situation is not uncommon. Many successful people have different work experiences. At that time, Japan already had a car, so Shoichiro Honda began his apprenticeship and worked for six years in a blink of an eye. 1928, soichiro ended his working career. I don't want to work for others under the promoter, I want to work alone. Therefore, Shoichiro Honda is a self-motivated person with his own ideas. After resigning, Shoichiro Honda opened his own repair shop. According to his six years' working experience, the repair shop is running well. This year, Shoichiro Honda was 22 years old, and I thought that I was still dating at school when I was 22 years old.
How time flies! It's six years in a flash. 1934. Honda is 28 years old, and he is not willing to be the owner of a repair shop all his life. So in this year, Donghai Precision Machinery Company was established. This company mainly produces piston rings, and its biggest customer is Akio Toyoda of Gao Fushuai.
1937, when the Japanese entered the village, Akio Toyoda began to build cars, so most of the piston rings made by Honda were sold to Toyota. This time it is 1 1 year. Once again, Honda is not willing to just make piston rings to make wedding clothes for others. After making piston rings for several years, Honda simply packaged the company and sold it to Toyota 1945.
After obtaining this part of the funds, Zong Ichiro began to manufacture motorcycles. 1946, Honda founded the "Honda Technology Research Institute". At that time, the company had not been established. Then why did he take a fancy to the motorcycle industry? At that time, just after World War II, Japan was beaten black and blue by Americans. There wasn't much room. Two atomic bombs directly bombed Meng. The economy plummeted and everything was in ruins. Many people have to go to the black market or the countryside to buy food at high prices. The traffic is not developed enough, and there are too many people who need goods. Cars and trains are often overloaded, just like Spring Festival travel rush every day. Riding a bike on the rugged mountain road is not only laborious, but also can't bring much food. When Fukuichiro Honda saw this situation, he felt it and immediately thought of many radio communicators left by the army after the war. He bought these things at a low price, removed the small gasoline engine on them, and then got a kettle as an oil tank and put it on a bicycle to make a new type of "mechanical bicycle", which immediately became a hot commodity in Tokyo, Japan.
At the beginning of motorcycle manufacturing, the Japanese government did not allow Honda Heyichiro to manufacture motorcycles. At that time, there were almost hundreds of motorcycle manufacturers and suppliers in Japan. The Japanese government thinks there are too many motorcycles, so it restricts the manufacture of motorcycles by Tsuichiro Honda. But what should I do if he doesn't do it? If I can win a championship on behalf of Japan, not only will my motorcycle become famous in the world, but the government will no longer restrict me from producing motorcycles, and I will probably be rewarded with a certificate or something. In order to persuade the Japanese government, Zong Ichiro sent several young drivers and four motorcycles to participate in the TT race in the Isle of Man, England. After the first time, he had little experience and came back in vain. One of Honda's most famous drivers died in Isle of Man, England. None of the four motorcycles finished the race. After returning to Japan, Zong Ichiro was superior, which was completely different from the expected result. At that time, Soichiro was regarded as a joke among his Japanese counterparts, but Soichiro was Soichiro. He didn't lose heart, didn't give up, re-studied the design and took part in the competition again. At that time, Zong Yilang was lying in humiliation. The next year, I took part in the competition again. This time I went to six cars, cut down six generals after five passes, and killed four sides through thorns. In the end, Honda drivers swept the top six in the competition. As a result, Honda motorcycle became famous and the double guns started. Didn't the first shot start? Of course, the news soon returned to Japan, and the Japanese government approved Honda to produce motorcycles!
1948, after the year of no doubt, Zong Ichiro established "Honda Technology Research Industry Co., Ltd.", so now we see that Honda's motorcycles can be deeply loved by the masses in the global market because Honda was a company that produced and researched motorcycles from the beginning.
Honda has been producing motorcycles for more than ten years. By the 1960s, after more than ten years of development, manufacture and improvement, Honda's motorcycle production technology was one of the best in the world. At the same time, Toyota's cars in Japan have become very famous in the world, and Honda is not willing to only produce motorcycles.
196 1 Honda began to research and manufacture automobiles and has experience in developing motorcycles. The same routine, let's first correct its name, and participate in the world's top automobile sports competitions F 1 and F 1 which started in 1950. It's my first time to participate in the F 1 competition. But if you don't let him lose, he won't know what to do. You lose, you lose. He hasn't lost. He should find problems, sum up experience and continue to do it. He must win the championship. At 1964 and at F 1 track in Mexico, Honda RA272 was equipped with a 48-valve V 6544. Finally, he won the sub-station championship, so he was very happy. He has always had this ideal and desire, hoping that the car he built can win the championship in the international arena. This time, it can be regarded as a dream come true. Although he doesn't read much, he has dreams, a spirit of struggle and enthusiasm, which shows how magical dreams are. At the same time, Honda's champion has also made Japanese automobile manufacturing technology at the forefront of the world. Later, he won the fourth place in the year-end points in 1967 season and withdrew from the F 1 race in 1968 season. It was not until 1983 that Honda returned to the F 1 track.
At the time of Honda's steady development, Japan promulgated 1970 "muskie". To put it bluntly, this policy is a policy to limit automobile emissions. This policy was first put forward by Americans, and the Japanese used it for reference. Japan is a country that loves learning. It used to learn from China, but later China closed its doors and became more and more backward. Japan lost its ability to learn at a glance, and became unemployed when it studied in the Qing Dynasty. Japan is the first Asian country to take the lead in capital. Besides, the promulgation and implementation of this law is undoubtedly a huge blow to automobile enterprises. Life and death depend on whether they can produce engines that meet the requirements.
The excitement came. 1972 Honda developed CCVC engine, not CCTV. This engine technology is one step ahead of Ford, Toyota and Nissan. Although I started late, don't forget that I am a technical madman. 1973, this engine was installed on the "spigu" car. We all know that this car was launched in the second year. It is called "Akkord" and our people call it "Accord"! After the launch of these two cars, Honda's automobile kingdom began to stride into the international market, and its sales in the United States were second only to GM and Toyota. CCVC's engine also made Honda Technology Research Industries highly praised by the US Environmental Protection Agency and the National Science Association.
In Honda's view, if you want to get along in the automobile industry, you must participate in the competition. After repeated defeats in the championship of F 1, Honda cooperated with Williams as an engine supplier in 1986, defeating all competitors and winning the world championship of F 1986.
By the 1980s, Honda had become the third largest automobile manufacturer in Japan, and by the end of 1980s, Honda had become the third largest automobile manufacturer in the world. At the same time, Chuan Dao, the successor of Honda, likes to pursue his basic policy of "Enterprises should face the world" and decided to build a factory in the United States to produce Honda cars. Honda-Akkord brand cars produced by Honda in the United States became the best-selling cars in the United States in the 1980s and 1990s, and made Shoichiro Honda the first Japanese entrepreneur to enter the American Automobile Hall of Fame.
Shoichiro Honda, a man with low educational level, is different from other Japanese entrepreneurs in that he is not only persistent in manufacturing technology, but also advanced in business philosophy. 1973, Honda celebrated its 25th anniversary. On this day, he resigned as the chairman of Honda Technology Research Industry Company and became the company's top consultant. He gave the throne of the company's top leader to Chuan Dao, 45. This successor has nothing to do with Shoichiro Honda, but an ordinary technical expert, which is legendary in the history of Japanese enterprises and is also a visionary pioneering work!
Shoichiro Honda has 450 inventions and 150 patents, and is known as one of the four saints of Japanese management. Throughout his life, Shoichiro Honda is a legendary figure!
Let's talk about Honda's housekeeping skills. First, we have to talk about Honda's engine technology. 1989, Kenichi Matsuzawa invented i-VTEC technology, which translated into Chinese as "variable valve phase and lift control system". After Honda's technology, BMW's Valvetronic, Toyota's VVT-i and Mitsubishi's MIVEC came into being. Honda's technology is variable valve timing and lift control. Black technology, in-cylinder direct injection technology, engine lightweight, variable valve lift technology, etc. The application of these technologies of Earthdream engine makes Honda engine better than other engines with the same displacement in terms of power and fuel consumption. Honda's CVT gearbox, AT gearbox and dual clutch gearbox are unique, and many parts are produced by themselves, which ensures the quality of spare parts and thus reduces the failure rate of the whole vehicle. It has a JD-POWER ranking in the United States and the world. Honda's reliability also makes Honda's value preservation rate in the used car market very high! In addition, Honda also has its own MM concept, which is to minimize the engine compartment and trunk and maximize the passenger compartment, which is vividly reflected in the Fit model!
If Audi is a technomaniac in Germany, then Honda is a technomaniac in Japan.
Speaking of technology, someone must say something about the oil valve incident. Honda's turbocharging was only used in domestic Honda in recent years. As early as the 1980s, Honda's turbocharging dominated the F 1 stadium, making European parking lots talk about T-color change. Although the oil valve incident has greatly reduced Honda's domestic sales and made Honda feel ashamed, it cannot be denied that Honda pursues the ultimate technology and treats a car brand unilaterally. In fact, every new model will have various problems. For some small problems, 4S stores will secretly improve, and big problems will generally be recalled. Therefore, it is generally recommended to decide whether to buy after the first half of the year! Of course, Honda also has some shortcomings, such as poor sound insulation and poor comfort.
Actually, cars, like people, are not perfect. Only the selling point of this car is exactly what you like, which is the car that suits you!
How to choose a car is entirely based on personal preferences and personal needs!
This is a basic development process of Honda, which is not comprehensive enough. I haven't talked about Honda's luxury brands yet. I will write a story about the development process of Acura in the future. Finally, share the real-time selling price of several models that Honda often sells for reference only. Preferential policies vary from place to place. The price I got is basically the lowest in the country, pure naked car. (No mortgage, no insurance and no decoration)
The guide price of CRV is 179800, and the discount is 17000.
Civic guide price 139900 discount 6000.
Accord guide price 189800 discount 15000
Fit guide price 8 1800 discount 7000
PS: I'm not a Honda fan!